Donors in Chevy Chase, MD to SMP

How Chevy Chase, MD meets SMP on the FEC tape

$1,578,920 is the overlap of two keys: contributor city CHEVY CHASE with state MD, and recipient committee C00484642 disclosed as SMP. LobbyVault keeps a Chevy Chase, MD city hub and a committee hub for SMP. Neither hub is this join. The city hub is every committee that received itemized gifts storing this city string. The committee hub is every city that gave to C00484642. This page is only both filters at once.

SMP is the stored committee name on C00484642; the packet does not expand the acronym. The join does not name unique donors, contribution counts, or cycles. Do not invent a headcount from $1,578,920. Repeat gifts, joint fundraising, and conduit memo entries can sit inside a city×committee total without this packet splitting them.

City labels are filer-entered. CHEVY CHASE is the stored string, not a Census place recode and not a metro-area roll-up. A donor who stored a neighboring city is on another hub. A donor who stored CHEVY CHASE and a different committee ID is in the leftover $93,305,505 of the city book, not in $1,578,920.

The Chevy Chase, MD side of the SMP join

Chevy Chase, MD’s all-committee itemized book in this extract is $94,884,425. $1,578,920 is 1.7% of Chevy Chase, MD’s $94,884,425 all-committee book. A small share is expected when one committee is compared with every other recipient on the city tape. The leftover $93,305,505 went to other committees under the same city string, or sits outside this recipient filter. Open the Chevy Chase, MD hub for that remainder; do not subtract by hand from a different extract.

The stored city sits in Maryland. Neighboring municipalities are not absorbed into CHEVY CHASE. Maryland campaign-finance pages include other cities. Do not add $1,578,920 to the state hub; the state extract already contains these rows when the same tape is used. All FEC ties lists other city-committee pages. None of them converts $1,578,920 into spending by Chevy Chase, MD candidates or into independent expenditures by SMP.

SMP (C00484642) as the recipient key

C00484642 is disclosed as SMP. This page does not list independent expenditures the committee made, operating expenditures it paid, or earmark destinations beyond the labeled recipient. $1,578,920 is itemized individual receipts storing city CHEVY CHASE and committee C00484642. Other cities giving to SMP appear on the committee hub. Adding them here would break the city filter.

Quote the committee with its FEC ID so a similarly named filing is not swapped in. SMP on another ID is a different page. This URL is Chevy Chase, MD × C00484642, not Maryland × C00484642 and not every spelling of CHEVY CHASE. If the overlay at the committee path disagrees with $1,578,920, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Share of the Chevy Chase, MD book

1.7% of $94,884,425 is $1,578,920 to SMP (C00484642). That percentage describes overlap of two FEC groupings, not a finding that residents of Chevy Chase, MD as a group preferred this committee. Most of the $94,884,425 city book went to other committees unless 1.7% is read as a large slice — even then, the slice is still only the C00484642 filter.

The leftover $93,305,505 under the CHEVY CHASE city string went to other committees. The Chevy Chase, MD hub holds that remainder. The SMP page holds receipts whose city field did not store CHEVY CHASE. Do not stack this cell with another city’s gifts to C00484642; each join is its own filter.

What the Chevy Chase, MD × SMP dollars omit

Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $1,578,920. Maryland state-office filings sit outside it. Independent expenditures are a different FEC file; the source note on this packet says these aggregates are not independent expenditures. City labels are filer-entered. PAC or joint-fundraising addresses that stored this city string follow the same rule as household streets.

Do not read $1,578,920 as proof that Chevy Chase, MD “funded” SMP as a municipal act, or that the committee spent the money in Maryland. The join is two fields. Correlation is not causation. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending awards. This packet has no obligation dollars and no award counts. Do not add $1,578,920 to federal spending in Maryland.

Contribution lines can cluster in a few ZIPs or spread across many. This packet does not list those ZIPs or a donor headcount. Open the city hub and the committee hub rather than guessing a postal split from the city string alone.

How to cite the Chevy Chase, MD × SMP join

Internal links go to Chevy Chase, MD, SMP, Maryland campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Use those four doors. The city page holds the $94,884,425 book and the committees that received the leftover $93,305,505. The committee page holds C00484642 receipts from every city. All FEC ties collects neighboring pairs without mixing independent expenditures into this cell.

Researchers citing the join should keep both nouns in the sentence: Chevy Chase, MD and SMP (C00484642). Dropping either noun turns this page into a restatement of a hub it is not. $1,578,920 is the only overlap this extract published. A later amendment wave can move a dollar without this file rewriting itself. Treat the live LobbyVault hub as newer than this packet snapshot.

Cite $1,578,920, $94,884,425, 1.7%, leftover $93,305,505, and C00484642. Keep both sides named: CHEVY CHASE as filer-entered city, SMP as recipient. Motive is outside the packet. Unitemized gifts never appear. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Questions

How much did Chevy Chase, MD donors give SMP?

Itemized FEC individual contributions storing city CHEVY CHASE and recipient SMP (C00484642) total $1,578,920 in this extract. That is the join, not Chevy Chase, MD’s all-committee book of $94,884,425. These figures are not independent expenditures. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Does the Chevy Chase, MD total include every spelling of the city name?

No. CHEVY CHASE is the exact stored city string with state MD. Other spellings, abbreviations, and neighboring places are other keys and are omitted from $1,578,920. LobbyVault does not recode the field into a Census place. Use the Chevy Chase, MD hub for the all-committee book of $94,884,425.

What share of Chevy Chase, MD itemized money went to SMP?

$1,578,920 is 1.7% of the $94,884,425 Chevy Chase, MD city book. The leftover $93,305,505 went to other committees under the same city string. Quote both dollars and the committee ID C00484642. Do not upgrade 1.7% into a ranking of civic preference.

Are the Chevy Chase, MD SMP figures from FEC.gov?

Yes. The numbers are FEC.gov itemized contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault: $1,578,920 for the Chevy Chase, MD × C00484642 join and $94,884,425 for the city string. If a later extract or the committee overlay disagrees with this snapshot, the Commission’s filing controls.